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Example sentences for "scintillated"

Lexicographically close words:
scimiter; scimus; scintilla; scintillant; scintillate; scintillating; scintillation; scintillations; scintillator; scio
  1. The glacier tips scintillated like the steel sabre-wall of a cavalry column, and the scraggy hemlocks on the peaks quickened with sapphire glints against their sober green.

  2. A merciless, cutting frost fell in fine showers till the two men were covered with a hoary coating which scintillated like glaring tinsel.

  3. A score of magnificent rubies scintillated in fiery flashes under the light.

  4. Swinburne sang and scintillated through him many and many an evening, and no one could give the lights and shades, the flow and flavour of his verse, as Mr. Saltus did.

  5. Burnishing the finished product with untiring skill, it scintillated at last.

  6. Now and again one or other of Rouminof's opals flashed and scintillated before him in the darkness, or moved off in starry flight before his tired gaze.

  7. But he scintillated also with splendour: he was probably omniscient, and of his omnipotence there was no doubt whatever.

  8. Terror encompassed him: he scintillated with it, as radium scintillates and is unconsumed.

  9. The broad König Strasse shone, the white stone of the palaces glared, the fountains glistened, and the coloring tree tops scintillated like the head-dress of an Indian prince.

  10. It was the military field, and it glittered and scintillated as squadron after squadron of cavalry dashed from side to side or wheeled in bewildering circles.

  11. Soon we came near to the cyclist army; the spokes of their wheels scintillated in the sunlight as they scudded over the open patches.

  12. For the first half-hour we made fairly good headway through the straggling belt of eucalypti covering the lower slopes, then we emerged on a treeless, boulder-strewn expanse, on which the sun scintillated with burning intensity.

  13. The cold, bleak sparks of eyes in his lean, lantern-jawed face scintillated with cunning.

  14. The spite that scintillated in his beads of eyes gave his words sinister significance.

  15. One by one the stars came out in the pacified vault, now of an ashen blue, while the lights of Rome, still far away on the verge of the horizon, scintillated like the lamps of light-houses.

  16. On the other hand, the nights were very cool; they scintillated with twinkling stars which formed, as it were, greater and smaller clusters.

  17. It was constructed of gleaming white marble inlaid with gold and brilliant stones which sparkled and scintillated in the sunlight.

  18. While he saw and felt all this his mind scintillated with thoughts of Lucy Blake.

  19. Ideas formed in his mind, scintillated and grew into dark purpose.

  20. And then some passionate impulse took possession of her; her face glowed like a flame, and her eyes scintillated like sparks.

  21. Groups of arms from every quarter of the globe, glistened upon the various panels, while ancient and modern panoplies scintillated in every nook and corner.

  22. He had plunged both his hands into his pockets, and drawn them out again full of things that scintillated in the moonlight--watches and jewellery of different kinds, as she saw.

  23. Santa Anna's eyes now scintillated with a lurid sinister light, as if filled with fire, ready to blaze out.

  24. Marian started, as if stung by an adder, and gazed into the eyes which fairly scintillated their electric light into her own.

  25. Peterson's face grew as black as a thunder-cloud, and his eyes fairly scintillated with fierceness.

  26. My, yes," piped little Banks, and his eyes scintillated like chippings of blue glacier ice.

  27. When his glance caught the judge's smile, his eyes scintillated their blue light.

  28. Banks nodded this time with a kind of fierceness; his eyes scintillated a white heat, but he suppressed the imminent explosion and began with forced mildness, "My, yes.

  29. One glance sufficed, and across her fertile brain there shot a demoniacal project of mischief, while her whole form became instinct, and her wicked eyes scintillated with fun.

  30. He had invented some new electric appliance and his mind scintillated as I had never known it to scintillate before.

  31. Her lips, too, were resolutely closed, but her eyes fairly scintillated with mischief, and she seemed just able to prevent herself from laughing outright.

  32. The sunlight that scintillated along the barrel of his weapon made it resemble a burnished spear, poised in his hand, while following it up to the stock, not only his crooked arm which supported the gun, but his entire profile was visible.

  33. Her gown was of black, in deference to the national mourning, but it glittered with sequins, and huge diamonds scintillated in her tiny ears, and she wore a mantle of royal ermine, that reached to the high heels of her little shoes.

  34. His cold eyes scintillated and twinkled unspeakable things at the little lady as the train carried him away.

  35. She wore a few costly jewels, and the diamond hilt of a tiny dagger glistened and scintillated in her auburn-tinted hair.

  36. He was at this time a man of forty-five, with a face that scintillated with intellect, with a rather corpulent frame and very courteous manners, although they covered an infinite fund of irony.


  37. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "scintillated" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.